Jan. 23, 2026
Artemis II Reaches Launch Site - January 24, 2026
Tonight: NASA’s Artemis II Rocket and Spacecraft Make Their Way to Launch Pad. Plus what to see in the night sky.
Portions of the podcast are made with the assistance of AI which helps us gather informaton from the NASA and other soruces.
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Calarogus Shark Media. You're listening to sleep from space. Step
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outside and look south. Orion commands the sky. The constellation
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seven main stars form one of the most recognizable patterns
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in the heavens. Binoculars reveal the sword hanging from his belt.
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Heads up for asteroid fans. Twenty twenty two. OC three
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passes Earth in about seven days, about one point three
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lunar distances away. It's about the size of a house.
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Harmless but fun to track. Solar activity is up. Multiple
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sunspot regions show high magnetic complexity, so sea class flares
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are possible. Aurora watchers in Canada and the northern US
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might catch some green on the horizon. Tonight, NASA's Artemus
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two moon rocket has arrived at the launch pad at
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Cape Canaveral. Four astronauts will fly around the Moon as
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early as February sixth, the first first crude lunar mission
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in over fifty years. And with that we'll say good night,
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see you tomorrow.
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